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Monday April 21, 2025. 11:19 PM
In a spectacle that combined elements of science fiction and athletics, China held its first-ever humanoid robot half-marathon over the weekend, pitting machines against more than 12,000 human runners in a 13.1-mile race in the streets of Beijing. The event, part of the...
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We’d like to thank our outgoing sponsor, Nova Custom, for sponsoring OSNews! Nova Custom, based in The Netherlands, makes laptops focused on privacy, customisation, and freedom. Nova Custom laptops ship with either Linux, Windows, or no operating system, and they’re...
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Only a few weeks ago, I linked to Cameron Kaiser’s excellent deep dive into the DEC Professional 380 running PRO/VENIX, and now we have a follow-up. Fortunately, today we have AI we have many more excellent and comprehensive documents on the subject, and more importantly,...
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TL;DR: Score a classic MacBook Air for under $200 with this exclusive deal. Don't overspend on a new laptop when refurbished MacBooks are available with all the power and quality design you know and love from Apple. Buying refurbished gets you the kind of computer you want...
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I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do. Kate has been around for long time now, about 20 years! At least earliest blog post for it I could find was written in 2004. I wanted to go over my workflow with it, why I like it so...
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If you’ve ever typed “please” or “thank you” into ChatGPT, you’re not alone — and you might be driving up OpenAI’s power bill. Just ask OpenAI CEO and tech billionaire Sam Altman. When an X (formerly Twitter) user joked about how much electricity the company...
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Anton Protopopov kicked off the BPF track on the second day of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a discussion about permitting indirect calls in BPF. He also spoke about his continuing work on static keys, a topic which is related...
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Another week, another airplane fire — this time, on a Delta Air Lines flight, about to take off this morning from Orlando International Airport. Footage circulating online shows 282 passengers and 12 crew members — trying to get to Atlanta — evacuating in Florida via...
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“Synology-branded drives will be needed for use in the newly announced Plus series, with plans to update the Product Compatibility List as additional drives can be thoroughly vetted in Synology systems,” a Synology representative told Ars by email. “Extensive internal...
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Yawning is contagious, not just among humans but also animals. Contagious yawning is thought to be linked to mirror neurons—cells in the brain that fire both when we do something and when we see someone else do it. These neurons help us mimic behaviors, and in the case of...
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Nothing says 'we love liberty' quite like hiring private muscle to manhandle citizens at a public town hall hosted by Idaho's Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. As reported in the CDA Press, Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg, and Jesse Jones from Lear...
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Along with lawlessly abducting international students and resisting court orders to return a Maryland man mistakenly shipped off to an El Salvador prison, the Trump administration has also unleashed a surge in phone searches for anyone traveling into the country. And by...
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Olo is the name of a color that, so far, has only been seen by a handful of scientists. The UC Berkeley researchers fired laser pulses into their eyes to energize specific retinal cells. The technique expanded visual perception to reveal a kind 'blue-green' hue that they've...
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'I don't like them. I wouldn't read them. I'll be honest I've read the reviews on some of them…' With these words at a public meeting, Tennessee's Rutherford County School Board member Stan Vaught admitted to banning books he hadn't read — a revelation that kicked off a...
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Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may soon have more time to spend with a plastic bottle of Highland Mist, if NPR's anonymous official is right. Hegseth was exposed by the New York Times this weekend as having shared 'war plans' online in a second chatroom—this one...
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For a man who made millions writing about supernatural horrors, Neil Gaiman sure seems terrified of mortal women speaking their truth. As reported in New York Magazine, the Sandman author is demanding $500,000 from Caroline Wallner, a former property caretaker who claims he...
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Puppy-slayer and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lost a lot of cash when her purse was snatched out from under the watchful eyes of the Secret Service. Unkind to animals DHS Sec. Kristi Noem lost her passport, $3,000 in cash, some blank checks and a her ...
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Remember when 'Aloha' meant 'hello' instead of 'up against wall'? As reported in The Independent, two German teenagers got a crash course in American hospitality when border agents decided their spontaneous vacation planning was clearly a sign of something sinister. ...
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Ruth Aisling's YouTube travels are entertaining, educational, and full of the joys and horrible lows of van camping. I've been enjoying Ruth Aisling's travel videos. I'm learning a ton about Scottish history and culture that I didn't know, seeing some charming, as well as...
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And the gaslighting continues, as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims with a straight face that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is doing a 'phenomenal job.' 'The president stands strongly behind Secretary Hegseth, who is doing a phenomenal job leading the Pentagon,' the...
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